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• October 30, 2014 30 Oct'14

  Half a million citizens to be using Gov.uk Verify by April 2015

  Government now expects to have nearly half a million people using its Gov.uk Verify service for online identity assurance by April 2015

• October 30, 2014 30 Oct'14

  Many firms still unprepared for cyber attack, EY survey shows

  More than a third of organisastions have no real-time insight on cyber risks necessary to combat rising threats, a survey has shown

• October 30, 2014 30 Oct'14

  Firms at serious risk of data loss through file sharing, study shows

  Businesses are at serious risk of data loss and compliance violations due to risky file-sharing practices, a study has shown

• October 30, 2014 30 Oct'14

  UK lags behind US and Australia in DevOps adoption

  The UK is significantly behind other markets in terms of DevOps adoption

• October 29, 2014 29 Oct'14

  Home Office appeals against $300m Raytheon payment in e-Borders dispute

  The Home Office has appealed against a decision to award $300m to Raytheon over the cancellation of its e-Borders contract

• October 29, 2014 29 Oct'14

  Tackling bloatware in the age of cloud-based apps

  Microsoft Office general manager Julia White on Office 365 security and making cloud apps easier for users

• October 29, 2014 29 Oct'14

  Banks see technology firms as biggest threat, says Infosys

  Google, Apple and Facebook the biggest threat to banks as technology firms offer consumers financial services

• October 29, 2014 29 Oct'14

  HMRC to save £200m per year by scrapping Aspire outsourcing deal

  HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) expects to save over £200m a year by moving away from its Aspire IT outsourcing contract in June 2017

• October 28, 2014 28 Oct'14

  British fashion retailer AllSaints picks Google tools for innovation

  Fashion brand AllSaints has refreshed its technology strategy with Google technologies to improve collaboration

• October 28, 2014 28 Oct'14

  Lloyds Banking Group confirms 9,000 job cuts and digital investment

  Lloyds Banking Group has confirmed it will cut 9000 jobs and close around 150 branches to focus more on its digital strategy

• October 28, 2014 28 Oct'14

  Met Office supercomputer to increase weather forecast accuracy

  Met Office buys £97m Cray supercomputer to help predict disruptive weather events with a far greater degree of accuracy

• October 28, 2014 28 Oct'14

  Most businesses do not understand risks of data breaches, study finds

  More than 70% of businesses do not understand fully the risks associated with data breaches, a study shows

• October 28, 2014 28 Oct'14

  Government replaces Becta education IT procurement framework

  Government seeks up to 20 suppliers to form a £300m procurement framework for ICT services to public-sector education organisations

• October 27, 2014 27 Oct'14

  Incident response: a common failing

  Organisations hit by cyber attacks often lack an effective incident response plan. Why are so many unprepared?

• October 27, 2014 27 Oct'14

  Met Police trials analytics to fight gang crime

  The Metropolitan Police is experimenting with analytics software to help predict which criminals are likely to re-offend

• October 27, 2014 27 Oct'14

  Cloud providers rush to build European datacentres over data sovereignty

  Cloud providers IBM and Google build datacentres in the EU as enterprises insist on keeping their data in Europe

• October 27, 2014 27 Oct'14

  CIO interview: David Johnstone of Martin Currie Investment Management

  The head of solutions management at the asset management firm discusses IT projects and the changing role of IT leaders

• October 27, 2014 27 Oct'14

  Hitachi Data Systems ploughs ahead with social innovation plans

  Hitachi Innovation Forum expects 16,000 delegates to share user cases on how technology is making society safer

• October 24, 2014 24 Oct'14

  Six networks that changed the world forever

  The Science Museum opens its Information Age gallery, dedicated to the history of information and communications

• October 24, 2014 24 Oct'14

  Universal Credit digital service set for first public test in Sutton

  Digital service for Universal Credit to start testing with benefit claimants in Sutton, south London, in the next two months

• October 24, 2014 24 Oct'14

  Amazon reports tough quarter despite sales increase

  Amazon reported a 20% year-on-year increase in third-quarter sales to $20.58bn, but also posted a net loss of $437m

• October 23, 2014 23 Oct'14

  Finance IT group wants to push forward banks' cloud discussion

  The Banking Industry Architecture Network (Bian) calls on industry to decide on the core banking systems to move to cloud platforms and share

• October 23, 2014 23 Oct'14

  Universal Credit digital system reaches key milestone as DWP delays roll-out

  The digital system supporting the Department for Work and Pension's Universal Credit programme has passed a major development milestone

• October 23, 2014 23 Oct'14

  BBC takes iPlayer video production to AWS cloud to beat bottleneck and storage woes

  Having run Video Factory on AWS for over a year, BBC's Robert Shield explains how he overcame iPlayer bottleneck and availability challenges

• October 23, 2014 23 Oct'14

  European enterprises can halve colo expenses by moving north, says Gartner

  Favourable environmental conditions in Northern Europe mean enterprises can save on their datacentre expenses

• October 22, 2014 22 Oct'14

  Firms lack technology for workforce of the future

  European businesses will rely increasingly on freelance, geographically dispersed employees as they vie to attract the top skills to their organisations over the next 5 years.

• October 22, 2014 22 Oct'14

  De Beers transforms global IT infrastructure in outsourcing deal with HCL

  South African diamond company De Beers transforms its global IT infrastructure in an outsourcing deal with HCL enabling industrialised services

• October 22, 2014 22 Oct'14

  EMC buys out Cisco’s stakes in VCE as year-on-year revenue jumps 9%

  Storage giant EMC has reported a 9% increase year on year for the third quarter of 2014, thanks to revenue rises across its divisions

• October 22, 2014 22 Oct'14

  Defra first department to implement Gov.uk Verify

  Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs first to utilise government’s new identity assurance system

• October 22, 2014 22 Oct'14

  Drones a threat to privacy, says former GCHQ chief David Omand

  The use of drones in the UK raises significant safety, security and privacy concerns, according to a report from ex-head of GCHQ, David Omand

• October 21, 2014 21 Oct'14

  Government releases social media guidance for civil servants

  New social media guidelines for civil servants have been released by the Cabinet Office

• October 21, 2014 21 Oct'14

  Why Shell, BP and PwC teamed up to launch platform-neutral IT4IT Forum

  Lack of IT integration and workload interoperability is pushing enterprises such as Royal Dutch Shell to collaborate with IT providers to develop standards

• October 21, 2014 21 Oct'14

  GCHQ embodies British values, says Iain Lobban

  Outgoing GCHQ director Iain Lobban has defended the intelligence agency in his final speech before retiring

• October 21, 2014 21 Oct'14

  US retailer Staples investigates possible data breach

  US retailer Staples confirms it is investigating a possible credit and debit card breach

• October 20, 2014 20 Oct'14

  IBM operating income falls by 18% as it offloads semiconductor unit

  IBM reported lower-than-expected earnings for the third quarter of 2014, with revenue down by 4% year-on-year

• October 20, 2014 20 Oct'14

  Disney spreads the magic through wearable technology

  The Walt Disney Company is using wearable technology to improve customer experience and engage with visitors

• October 20, 2014 20 Oct'14

  Forget devices, we still need signal, says WWF IT director

  Organisations such as the WWF are still trying to focus on sufficient connectivity for remote workers says WWF director of ICT services, Linda Humphrey.

• October 17, 2014 17 Oct'14

  FBI director James Comey joins call for online surveillance tools

  FBI director James Comey has reiterated the need for online surveillance and joined calls for more tools to do so

• October 17, 2014 17 Oct'14

  Local government outsourcing shrinks workforce 35%

  The number of staff directly employed by a fifth of local authorities will reduce 35% by 2020 as a result of outsourcing

• October 17, 2014 17 Oct'14

  Google shares down on mixed third quarter results

  Google's share price dipped around 3% in response to mixed financial results for the third quarter

• October 16, 2014 16 Oct'14

  Cope could be the future of mobility, says BBC technology chief

  A corporate-owned, personally enabled (Cope) implementation could be the best option for mobility plans in the future

• October 16, 2014 16 Oct'14

  UK is prime target for cyber attacks, says FireEye

  The UK has been greatest target of advanced cyber attacks in Europe, the Middle East or Africa in the first half of 2014, report shows

• October 16, 2014 16 Oct'14

  Comic Relief’s digital challenge: talent, data and the No Make-Up Selfie

  Social media campaigns such as the No Make-Up Selfie and the Ice Bucket Challenge threaten charities such as Comic Relief with their digital reach

• October 16, 2014 16 Oct'14

  Security key to Bank of Maharashtra payments platform

  The Bank of Maharashtra (BOM) is using software from FIS for a card management and card fraud and risk monitoring system as it modernizes its payments platform

• October 15, 2014 15 Oct'14

  Industrial control systems: What are the security challenges?

  Targeted attacks on industrial control systems are the biggest threat to critical national infrastructure, says Kaspersky Lab

• October 15, 2014 15 Oct'14

  Cyber security failing in execution, says ex-US cyber czar

  Cyber security suffers from a lack of execution, former White House cyber security co-ordinator Howard Schmidt has said.

• October 15, 2014 15 Oct'14

  Gov.uk Verify identity assurance service ready to go live

  Government expected to launch first service using digital identity assurance in "next couple of weeks"

• October 15, 2014 15 Oct'14

  B&Q launches online kitchen planning and design tool

  The DIY retailer debuts its B&Q Spaces planning and design tool which allows customers to plan their kitchen, bathroom and bedroom projects online

• October 15, 2014 15 Oct'14

  CIOs fear poor cloud investment is making businesses uncompetitive

  CIOs and CFOs fear their enterprises are missing revenue opportunities due to poor cloud strategies

• October 13, 2014 13 Oct'14

  Embedded SIMs key to unlocking internet of things

  GSMA’s eUICC Embedded SIM Specification will help M2M communications and the IoT become mainstream, say analysts